According to archives, 'the February 1909 article claims that a man had been seized by the winged creature, which proceeded to sink its teeth into his jugular, drain his body of blood and casually drop it off a hillside.
According to the Middletown Valley Register, President Theodore Roosevelt himself was actually considering postponing his highly-publicized African safari to stalk the mysterious local specimen. Originally hailing from Maryland, the hoax of this monstrous cryptid was perpetuated by a local newspaper.
